The ice rise was observed, photographed and roughly sketched by Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlson, U.S. Navy, in the course of a C-130 aircraft flight of December 14–15, 1961 from McMurdo Sound to this vicinity and returning.
[1] Between 2005 and 2007 extensive ground-based [2] and airborne[3] radar surveys by teams from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) were carried out, which obtained information about the thickness and internal structure of the ice mass, confirming operation of the Raymond Effect at the ice divide.
In 2011-12 further radar surveying was done by Guðfinna 'Tollý' Aðalgeirsdóttir[4] and drilling through the ice was carried out by a BAS-led team.
[5] In consequence part of the Fletcher Ice Rise was named the Hindmarsh Dome [de] by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee.
This article about a location in Queen Elizabeth Land or on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf is a stub.